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Johor–Singapore Causeway
The Johor–Singapore Causeway, also known as the Johor Causeway, is a 1,056-meter road and rail crossing of the Johor Strait between Singapore and Malaysia, opened in 1924.
Jon Edward Khachaturian
Jon Edward Khachaturian is an American civil engineer, founder and CEO of Versabar, Inc., elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2010 for innovative heavy lifting systems.
Joseph Bazalgette
Sir Joseph William Bazalgette (1819–1891) was an English civil engineer who, as chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, built the sewers and Thames embankments that ended the city's cholera epidemics.
Joseph T. Ling
Joseph T. Ling (1919–2006) was a Chinese-born American environmental engineer who led pollution control at 3M and created its Pollution Prevention Pays program in 1975.
Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
The Journal of Construction Engineering and Management is a monthly peer-reviewed journal published by the American Society of Civil Engineers, covering research in construction engineering and construction management.
Journal of Engineering Mechanics
The Journal of Engineering Mechanics is a monthly peer-reviewed journal published by the American Society of Civil Engineers, covering applied mechanics as it relates to civil engineering since 1956.
Journal of Environmental Engineering
The Journal of Environmental Engineering is a monthly peer-reviewed journal published by the American Society of Civil Engineers, covering wastewater treatment, contaminant transport, and hazardous and solid waste research.
Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
The Journal of Hydraulic Engineering is a peer-reviewed civil engineering journal published by the American Society of Civil Engineers since 1983, covering flows in conduits, rivers, and estuaries.
Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
The Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management is a monthly peer-reviewed civil engineering journal published by the American Society of Civil Engineers since 1983.
Jubilee line
The Jubilee line is a London Underground line running from Stanmore to Stratford, opened in 1979, renamed for the Silver Jubilee, and extended to the Docklands in 1999.
K-truss
The K-truss is a bridge truss configuration whose web members form a repeated K pattern, a modification of the Parker truss prized for large spans.
Kainji Dam
Kainji Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Niger River in Kainji, Niger State, Nigeria, commissioned in 1968 as the country's first large dam on the Niger, with a capacity of 760 MW.
Kajaki Dam (د کجکي بند)
The Kajaki Dam (د کجکي بند) is a 90 m high dam on the Helmand River in Helmand province, Afghanistan, built in the 1950s with United States funding.
Kakhovka Reservoir (Каховське водосховище)
Kakhovka Reservoir, also known as Kakhovka Lake (Каховське водосховище), was one of six large Dnipro River reservoirs in Ukraine, created in the 1950s and destroyed in 2023.
Kala Wewa (කලා වැව)
Kala Wewa (කලා වැව), also called Kala-Balaluwewa, is an ancient reservoir in Sri Lanka's Kala Oya basin, traditionally built by King Dhatusena in the 5th century AD and feeding the Yoda Ela canal toward Anuradhapura.
Kalabagh Dam (کالاباغ ڈیم)
The Kalabagh Dam (کالاباغ ڈیم), also known as Kala Bagh, is a proposed dam on the Indus River in Punjab, Pakistan, first proposed in 1953 but never built.
Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project
The Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project is a large lift irrigation project on the Godavari River in Telangana, India, described as the world's largest multi-stage lift irrigation project.
Kaligandaki A Hydroelectric Power Station
The Kaligandaki A Hydroelectric Power Station, also known as Kaligandaki A, is a 144 MW run-of-river plant on the Kaligandaki River in Syangja District, Nepal, opened in 2002.
Kallanai Dam
Kallanai, also known as the Grand Anicut, is an ancient dam across the Kaveri River in Tamil Nadu, India, built by the Chola king Karikala.
Kam people
The Kam people, also known as the Dong people (Dòngzú) or Gaeml, are a Tai-Kadai-speaking minority of southern China living mainly in eastern Guizhou, Hunan, and Guangxi.
Kani's method
Kani's method, also called the rotation contribution method, is an iterative method for analyzing indeterminate beams and rigid frames, developed by German engineer Gasper Kani in 1947.
Kano River Irrigation Project
The Kano River Irrigation Project, also known as KRIP, is a large gravity irrigation scheme in Kano State, northern Nigeria, supplied with water from Tiga Dam on the Kano River.
Kapchagay Reservoir (Қапшағай бөгені)
Kapchagay Reservoir (Қапшағай бөгені, also spelled Kapshagay) is a large reservoir on the Ili River in southeastern Kazakhstan, formed by a hydroelectric dam completed in 1970.
Kapellbrücke
The Kapellbrücke, or Chapel Bridge, is a 205-meter covered wooden footbridge crossing the Reuss River diagonally in Lucerne, Switzerland; dating to around 1365, it is Europe's oldest surviving wooden bridge.
Kaprun disaster
The Kaprun disaster, also called the Kaprun funicular fire, was a tunnel fire on 11 November 2000 in Austria that killed 155 people and left 12 survivors.
Kaptai Dam (কাপ্তাই বাঁধ)
Kaptai Dam (কাপ্তাই বাঁধ) is an earth-fill hydroelectric dam on the Karnaphuli River in Bangladesh, built between 1957 and 1962; it created Kaptai Lake, the country's largest man-made lake, and remains Bangladesh's only hydroelectric power station.
Karakum Canal
The Karakum Canal (Russian: Каракумский канал) is a large irrigation canal in Turkmenistan carrying Amu Darya water across the Karakum Desert, built from 1954 to 1988.
Kariba Dam
Kariba Dam is a concrete arch dam on the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe, feeding two underground power stations with a combined capacity of 2,130 MW.
Katse Dam
Katse Dam is a 185-meter-high concrete arch dam on the Malibamats'o River in Lesotho, the largest dam of Phase 1A of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project.
Kemer bridge
Kemer bridge: a Roman segmental arch bridge over the Xanthos River near ancient Xanthos, Lycia, Turkey; surviving 29 m ramp with three arches, two with a one-meter rise; site at Atlıdere.